A couple days ago our new co-manager, who was a manager and drove one store out of business, was informed by the girl frying chicken that we had ran out of flower for breading the chicken and the bags that were supposed to come in on the supply order that day didn't come in. He said he was going to another store to borrow a few bags and he'd be back in a few minutes. The chicken person had a large order later that afternoon and need the flower a.s.a.p! Well the co-manager comes back over an hour later (the store he went to was at most a 10 minute drive to and from) with one, yes one bag of flour! That was supposed to last the rest of the day and the next day. Well the next day the total pieces of chicken from just the orders was over 450.
Well to get to the point, the co-manager looked at the orders and said we were supposed to have 6 bags and they were just buried behind some pallets in the back room. Hell me, the chicken girl, our assistant deli manager and our Drug GM manager looked all through the back room and never located the flour. He just wouldn't admit that the warehouse billed us and shorted us the product or it got unloaded to the wrong store. He was adamant that we had it because the bills said so. No wonder no one likes working with this guy!
It's the superiority complex that most managers have when they get out of training. Nothing they ever do or say can ever be wrong. The worst part is, he will just shift the blame and move back up.
The old saying really is true: Those who can, do. Those who can't, manage.
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My views don't reflect those of anyone, not even me. I may not have even made this statement. It's all lies, all of it!
I've never considered using flower with my chicken. Not even as a garnish.
Anyway, reminds me of when my manager had me stock organic milk. I insisted that we had zero cases of ANY Horizon milk, not even in the two pallets of organic milk we had come in. He said that they ARE there because "the handheld says so" and that he "ordered them [him]self".
He checks the back and I was right, he found no cases of the stuff I've told him we didn't have. The two pallets were all ST milk, with some Silk mixed in. After calling me a smartass, he bears down on the nutrition lead about why she "didn't order" the other stuff.
I don't know how most of these co-managers get the jobs they have. At our store, we have a new one who is near retirement who was encouraged to come to our store. She's great. The other one - I wouldn't give you half a cent for; she's combative, ignorant, etc.
Regarding the milk -- if the front end cashier didn't scan each individual milk, it won't show up on the handheld correctly. A lot of them see organic and hit quantity whatever and get them down the belt since we're timed on transactions.
Regarding the milk -- if the front end cashier didn't scan each individual milk, it won't show up on the handheld correctly. A lot of them see organic and hit quantity whatever and get them down the belt since we're timed on transactions.
As someone who's worked at both the front and the back, I know that.
My manager, however, insist that he's "personally" gone through the organic milk shelves and ordered stuff that we "needed". He also claims that he ordered enough to "last" for a week.
